Posted on 11/18/2021 6:02:09 AM PST by Red Badger
A Mississippi man became the state's first execution in nearly 10 years on Wednesday after he was convicted of killing his wife and sexually assaulting his stepdaughter while her mother was forced to watch as she was dying.
David Neal Cox, 50, pleaded guilty to capital murder in 2012 and pleaded guilty to other charges including sexual assault. The crime was committed in 2010 when he shot and killed his estranged wife Kim Cox. His stepdaughter Lindsey Kirk, now 23, was present at his execution. "I want my children to know that I love them very much and that I was a good man at one time," Cox said just before his death, according to the Associated Press . "Don't ever read anything but the King James Bible."
Kirk told the Associated Press that she had been assaulted by Cox for several years when her mother was out of the house, and Cox threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
Kirk eventually told her mother about the assault in 2009. Cox was arrested and charged with statutory rape, sexual battery, child abuse, and possession of methamphetamine. However, he was released without standing trial in 2010, a month before the murder.
Cox held his wife, stepdaughter, and one of his stepsons hostage for eight hours on the night of May 14 into the next day in Sherman, Mississippi . Cox shot his wife and then sexually assaulted Kirk three times while her mother was dying. By the time police arrived and got inside, Kim Cox had died.
Burl Cain, the state corrections commissioner, told the Associated Press the execution had gone "picture perfect."
Cain also confirmed the use of three drugs for the execution: midazolam, a sedative, vecuronium bromide, which paralyzes the muscles, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. The drugs are hard to obtain due to pharmaceutical companies frequently blocking their use for executions .
Mississippi currently has 30 inmates on death row, though no other execution has been scheduled.
Wow, what a POS. SPJNK.
Life imprisonment without parole would be cheaper and more acceptable. Problem is there will never be any such thing.
Thanks for the feel good story. More of these scum needs to be put down.
The big pharmaceutical industry better be worried, the day of reckoning is on the way for the likes of megalomaniac Fauci and the criminal cabal he runs.
Next!
Why not use fentanyl?
Nope, I don’t agree. He would have a grand time. He would be able to enjoy his jailhouse meth and have all the sex he wants. This was the proper end, it just took too long to administer.
11 years from date of crime to execution is certainly better than what happens on most death row cases.
Now that I have seen his picture, I am pretty sure, no riots will be planned.
It’s too dangerous! He might become addicted!........................
“Why not use fentanyl?”
Wondering the same thing!?
Super Euphoric high followed by sudden cardiac arrest.
“Life imprisonment without parole would be cheaper and more acceptable.”
It wouldn’t be more acceptable to me. And the cost would go down if we got rid of the endless appeals process. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not entirely comfortable with the State having the power of death in its hands. I lived through the Nicarico debacle here in Illinois.
But the solution to the problem of unethical Prosecutors is swift and severe punishment when they do it. For that I would support life imprisonment. Actually using 18USC242 against corrupt government officials would be a damned good start.
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This is outrageous. How dare they try to pervert justice in this country. Are we ruled now by drug companies? They don't mind selling us their poisonous "vaccines." But to painlessly execute a murderer/rapist? That's out of bounds. These companies are perverted.
BTW....
Thanks for the tip on KJV.
You mean, like California? 👎👎 California was woke, before anyone knew what it meant.
Never heard in any court: You are sentenced to death from old age.
On the other hand one does not need pharmaceutical grade chemicals for a walking dead man. A chemical supply house can get you some. Improvisation can get you the rest. Someone mentioned fentanyl
SPJNK.
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